Current Events > Ohio Bank 'sorry' for calling the cops on a black man cashing his pay check.

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Tmaster148
12/20/18 4:55:38 PM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46637632

Paul McCowns, 30, had gone to the Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio - a suburb of Cleveland - with his first cheque from his new job.

After providing two forms of ID and giving his fingerprints, as requested, the bank staff refused to cash the cheque, and asked him to leave.

Unbeknownst to Mr McCowns, they also called police who later detained him.

"It was highly embarrassing," Mr McCowns told Cleveland 19 News.

The incident on 1 December occurred after Mr McCowns arrived at the bank to cash his cheque of over $1,000 (800), earned after three weeks in his new job.

Because he does not have an account with Huntington Bank, they required him to provide two forms of ID, and also insisted that he provide his fingerprints.

After multiple cashiers examined the cheque, he says, they refused to cash it and asked him to leave.

But without informing Mr McCowns, they had also called 911 and reported that he was trying to cash a fraudulent cheque.

Police handcuffed him and put him in a squad car as they called his employer, who he said told officers: "'Yes, he works for me, he just started, and yes, my payroll company does pay him that much.'"

In a statement Huntington Bank said it "sincerely apologises to Mr McCowns for this extremely unfortunate event."

Mr McCowns, who cashed his cheque at a different Huntington branch the next day, said the apology was insufficient.

"I want an apology, a sincere apology, mainly from the person who called the cops on me."

According to Brooklyn police, there have been over 10 calls to police about fraudulent cheques from that bank branch alone in the past few months - all of which ended in arrests.

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Muffinz0rz
12/20/18 4:57:21 PM
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Tmaster148
12/20/18 5:02:06 PM
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Godnorgosh posted...
There have been so many weird cases where people just assume black people aren't supposed to have money. There was also that incident involving a Southwest employee where a customer was having a medical emergency. A black woman tried to help and said she was a doctor, and the employee was like, "Pfft, no you aren't!"


There's also been a weird thing this year were people call the cops on black people doing average everyday things.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/black-people-doing-normal-things-who-had-police-called-them-2018/2374750002/
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Veggeta X
12/20/18 5:02:16 PM
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Sue the fuck out of them
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K181
12/20/18 5:03:00 PM
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Classic example of [insert verb here]ing while black.
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Blue_Dream87
12/20/18 5:03:16 PM
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Fire those fucks or expose them
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smoke_break
12/20/18 5:05:02 PM
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Veggeta X posted...
Sue the fuck out of them

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ImTheMacheteGuy
12/20/18 5:06:11 PM
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Someone will show up and say something like "he was probably getting belligerent with them"
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K181
12/20/18 5:06:18 PM
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Veggeta X posted...
Sue the fuck out of them


Blue_Dream87 posted...
Fire those fucks or expose them


Ultimately, yeah.... employees harassed a customer by calling the cops on them without cause while said customer was following company policy. That should be a very quick out of court payout and a couple of people getting canned.
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glitteringfairy
12/20/18 5:06:40 PM
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Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!
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SpudForce
12/20/18 5:10:42 PM
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In my previous line of work, I've responded to a ton of "suspicious" black male walking through the neighborhood service calls by overly paranoid neighbors. Remember folks, it's not LE's fault that shit like this happens, when we get called we HAVE to investigate no matter how stupid the call seems.
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Tmaster148
12/20/18 5:12:18 PM
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SpudForce posted...
In my previous line of work, I've responded to a ton of "suspicious" black male walking through the neighborhood service calls by overly paranoid neighbors. Remember folks, it's not LE's fault that shit like this happens, when we get called we HAVE to investigate no matter how stupid the call seems.


I don't think anyone is blaming the police in this instance.
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glitteringfairy
12/20/18 5:12:23 PM
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SpudForce posted...
In my previous line of work, I've responded to a ton of "suspicious" black male walking through the neighborhood service calls by overly paranoid neighbors. Remember folks, it's not LE's fault that shit like this happens, when we get called we HAVE to investigate no matter how stupid the call seems.

Sorry bud. That's not how it works anymore
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Barber102
12/20/18 5:12:34 PM
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glitteringfairy posted...
Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!


Who started speaking and writing in english first? Oh right, maybe if america treated education properally you wouldnt need to change the spelling of words because you couldnt figure out how to correctly spell them in the first place.
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Zerocide
12/20/18 5:13:17 PM
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Having the cops called on you for cashing your check while black.

Only in Amerikkka.
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HylianFox
12/20/18 5:16:45 PM
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$1000 for three weeks of work? What a ripoff
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Lorenzo_2003
12/20/18 5:20:31 PM
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According to Brooklyn police, there have been over 10 calls to police about fraudulent cheques from that bank branch alone in the past few months - all of which ended in arrests.

I wish they had provided more information about that. If its all black people, or at least minorities, then that would be a disturbing trend. If its a mixed group, well... the news headline would be implying something that is inaccurate.
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HylianFox
12/20/18 5:21:37 PM
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...
According to Brooklyn police, there have been over 10 calls to police about fraudulent cheques from that bank branch alone in the past few months - all of which ended in arrests.

I wish they had provided more information about that. If its all black people, or at least minorities, then that would be a disturbing trend. If its a mixed group, well... the news headline would be implying something that is inaccurate.

maybe it's just a shitty bank
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TrevorBlack79
12/20/18 5:21:58 PM
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Barber102 posted...
glitteringfairy posted...
Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!


Who started speaking and writing in english first? Oh right, maybe if america treated education properally you wouldnt need to change the spelling of words because you couldnt figure out how to correctly spell them in the first place.

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glitteringfairy
12/20/18 5:22:35 PM
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Barber102 posted...
glitteringfairy posted...
Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!


Who started speaking and writing in english first? Oh right, maybe if america treated education properally you wouldnt need to change the spelling of words because you couldnt figure out how to correctly spell them in the first place.

Lmao.
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VipaGTS
12/20/18 5:23:22 PM
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"oops, we didn't mean to!"
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MC_BatCommander
12/20/18 5:26:16 PM
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Godnorgosh posted...
There have been so many weird cases where people just assume black people aren't supposed to have money. There was also that incident involving a Southwest employee where a customer was having a medical emergency. A black woman tried to help and said she was a doctor, and the employee was like, "Pfft, no you aren't!"


there was that time when an employee wouldn't show Oprah an expensive handbag

like, literally fuckin' Oprah was profiled as being a poor black person
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VerisimiIitude
12/20/18 5:30:25 PM
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HylianFox posted...
Lorenzo_2003 posted...
According to Brooklyn police, there have been over 10 calls to police about fraudulent cheques from that bank branch alone in the past few months - all of which ended in arrests.

I wish they had provided more information about that. If its all black people, or at least minorities, then that would be a disturbing trend. If its a mixed group, well... the news headline would be implying something that is inaccurate.

maybe it's just a shitty bank

Not particularly... Ive been using that bank for a few years now and this all seems out of left field.
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Lorenzo_2003
12/20/18 5:31:53 PM
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HylianFox posted...
maybe it's just a shitty bank


Yes, and thats what Im getting at. Did they mess with the black guy because theyre racist, which is definitely shitty, or did they mess with him because the bank is shitty and theyre just shitty to everyone? Right now, it feels like BBC News is pushing something, or maybe people are just seeing what they want to see.
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K181
12/20/18 5:33:49 PM
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Barber102 posted...
glitteringfairy posted...
Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!


Who started speaking and writing in english first? Oh right, maybe if america treated education properally you wouldnt need to change the spelling of words because you couldnt figure out how to correctly spell them in the first place.


And West Virginian English is supposedly the closest living variant to Shakespearean English, so drop the great vowel shift and go back to how your forefathers spoke it.
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VipaGTS
12/20/18 5:35:03 PM
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...
HylianFox posted...
maybe it's just a shitty bank


Yes, and thats what Im getting at. Did they mess with the black guy because theyre racist, which is definitely shitty, or did they mess with him because the bank is shitty and theyre just shitty to everyone? Right now, it feels like BBC News is pushing something, or maybe people are just seeing what they want to see.

people trying to cash fraudulent checks seems like it'd be a common thing. the demographics of who is doing it seems unimportant....in this case, WHY they thought this was also Fraud is the important detail. what about that check made them second guess it? It was legitimate...you'd think a bank would know. If all the other cases led to arrests how do they not know what to look for in THIS case?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
12/20/18 5:44:43 PM
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HylianFox posted...
$1000 for three weeks of work? What a ripoff


It says over $1000. It could be 1500 or closer to 2000. It's likely they chose to phrase it as "over 1000" because the bank probably has a policy about scrutinizing checks over $1000. Some banks do that. Mine doesn't. My xmas bonus is usually around 1300-1400 and gets direct deposited and even before that I could deposit it via atm without even signing it and it didn't cause any issues.
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PleaseClap
12/20/18 5:46:57 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
SpudForce posted...
In my previous line of work, I've responded to a ton of "suspicious" black male walking through the neighborhood service calls by overly paranoid neighbors. Remember folks, it's not LE's fault that shit like this happens, when we get called we HAVE to investigate no matter how stupid the call seems.


I don't think anyone is blaming the police in this instance.

They did handcuff him and put him into a cop car for attempting to cash a legitimize cheque
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mybbqrules
12/20/18 5:50:09 PM
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HylianFox posted...
$1000 for three weeks of work? What a ripoff


You say "ripoff", the GOP and their corporate masters say "a completely sufficient amount to live on".
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Laserion
12/20/18 5:50:56 PM
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Dumb racists still calling the cops on black people without cause. And it looks like it was several tellers, not just one.
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Lorenzo_2003
12/20/18 5:58:12 PM
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VipaGTS posted...
people trying to cash fraudulent checks seems like it'd be a common thing. the demographics of who is doing it seems unimportant....in this case, WHY they thought this was also Fraud is the important detail. what about that check made them second guess it? It was legitimate...you'd think a bank would know. If all the other cases led to arrests how do they not know what to look for in THIS case?


Yeah, unfortunately we dont have enough from the article to know the answer to those questions. Personally, I think they probably are a bunch of asshole racists. They made this customer jump through hoops with providing two ID and fingerprints, then still called the police on him. That really pisses me off and I agree with the guy when he responded:

"I want an apology, a sincere apology, mainly from the person who called the cops on me."
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E32005
12/20/18 6:20:10 PM
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E32005
12/20/18 6:22:54 PM
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Barber102 posted...
glitteringfairy posted...
Stop reading at cheque. Learn to fucking spell, England!


Who started speaking and writing in english first? Oh right, maybe if america treated education properally you wouldnt need to change the spelling of words because you couldnt figure out how to correctly spell them in the first place.

Hes from Tennessee
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12/20/18 6:27:33 PM
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Blue_Dream87
12/20/18 7:06:03 PM
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
HylianFox posted...
$1000 for three weeks of work? What a ripoff


It says over $1000. It could be 1500 or closer to 2000. It's likely they chose to phrase it as "over 1000" because the bank probably has a policy about scrutinizing checks over $1000. Some banks do that. Mine doesn't. My xmas bonus is usually around 1300-1400 and gets direct deposited and even before that I could deposit it via atm without even signing it and it didn't cause any issues.


And that excuses them calling the police....?
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Esrac
12/20/18 7:13:07 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2AfHUCmWs" data-time="


But seriously, I get bring cautious after getting a bunch of fraudulent cheques recently, but do they just not think a black man can get paid?

Beyond that, did they not allow him to or suggest that he set up an account there?
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